Schultz Signed
Looks like #55 isn’t going anywhere for a while. Congrats, Sarge. Capitals Sign Defenseman Jeff Schultz to Four-Year Contract ARLINGTON, VA. – The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Jeff...
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Blueline by a Less Than Bruising Committee (Again)
The good news: the Caps yesterday spent nearly $12 million on their less than intimidating blueline. The bad news: all of it went to Jeff Schultz. Intimidation quotient on the back end remains...
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Give Blood, Play Hockey – Saturday’s Charity Hockey Classic
Heading to Kettler on Sunday to catch the opening day of the Washington Capitals’ Rookie Camp? Why not stop by a day early for the Second Annual Charity Hockey Classic? The Charity Hockey Classic is an...
View ArticleOFB TV: Bs Best the Caps as Neuvirth Falls Ill
Milan Lucic-type players don’t grow on trees, of course, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a power forward who on a nightly basis was a credible threat to record a Gordie Howe hat trick? Lucic was...
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Still a Work in Progress: Skating with Killer Instinct
Who knew HBO cameras would arrive in town this week to begin filming a horror movie? Monday night at Verizon Center was a drama that took a horrific turn for the hosts in the game’s final 10 minutes,...
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In a Season of High Hopes, Instead We Have High Crimes and Misdemeanors
A political bumper sticker of some years back read, ‘If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.’ “Outrage” by local hockey fans may be too strong a term to apply with respect to the 2010-11...
View ArticleTake 2 – Playoff Opening Video
Yes, we posted the playoff opening video the other day. The Caps just posted another view of the video giving a better look and feel of the arena. You have a camera on the arena to the left, the video...
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Size, of Body and Heart, Matters — Especially in 2012
Instructive moment: Rangers’ captain Ryan Callahan, made captain at so tender an age partly out of his affinity for playing December hockey games like they’re game 7s in May, blocked a John Carlson...
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Bleeding Through Roster Band-Aids
A season fraught with promise and peril delivered both in game 3 Monday night, but in the end, Washington’s roster, still not yet assembled for durable playoff prosperity, succumbed to one proven to...
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Hitting the Reset Button
I commend to your attention the most recent fit of gutsy thoughtfulness from my blogger buddy Ed Frankovic, who with commendable clarity of consideration arrives at this sobering recommendation as it...
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